Pacific Lutheran College Bulletin Puhlished lJi-Jllonthly by Pacific Lutheran College of Parldu.Dcl, Tacoma, \\'llshiuJ;"ton. AI)lllication for cntry as second class ntatter Is ·pendin,g.

Vol. 1 April 29, 1927

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THE NORWEGIA.'1 LUTHEHA1'':: CHURCH OF AMERICA

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No.1

'The Fu·ture of Pacific Lutheran College

d. its regular convention, our Pacific district decided to raIse an endowment fund of $250,000 for Pa­cific Lutheran College, our Christian School. No decision has ever been made in our part of the Lutheran Church in America which will so vitally affect our future. In the success or failure of this effort hangs in

the balance the growth or failure of our Church on the Pacific slope.

The future of our Church depends on its ministry, that promising boys of our congregations are en­listed, trained, ordained to become the messengers of God's Gospel of Salvation. No Church body grows

faster than its supply of pastors to conserve existing congregations and to establish new congregations where

opportunity offers.

P4CIFIC LUTHERAN COLLEGE is

a p .. �cious heritage which the pioneers of our C[/fIreh all the Coast have Iltwdet! down 10 I eir e!tildrell. TI",y knew very

11 111111 wurk for tlte Kill!idom wUllld nOf lIIuk consistellt progress without a

�cl'o,,1 for the right traillillg of workers. Therefo,. they put their very lives into the fOllndillg of this il/stittttioll.

.411£1 tltis heritage of tlteirs has pt'oved its worth. Pacific Lutherall College has for decades bee na mai" source of power for setting liP the th.-one of Christ west of the Rockies.

Surely, theil, 0111- Ch"istiall people will 1I0t suffl'" this power statioll to be dis­mall tied, this preciolls heritage to go to waste! The sacrifices allt! prayers of the pioneers mllst 1I0t be brol/ght to 1I01/ght, and the 11lissiollary progress of 0111' Church 011 the Coast be halted!

/�"ay God stir liP Ilgaill the spirit of the piolleers ill the;,- /reil'S! Theil the high hopes wlrich let! to the fOlllldillg of Pacific LlIthel'al/ College will be relllized gralldly dowll thrOllgh the comillli gellel'fltiolls.

(Sigl/ed) o. E. BRANIlT.

From our own schools alone our Lutheran Church draws its sup­

ply of pastors. There are eleven thousand Lutheran Pastors in America

today. Less than three hundred were trained in non-Lutheran schools_ Because our fathers before us built strong Christian schools, our

Church today is vigorous and strong. If our Church is to carry on for

our children's children, we today must stand by our Christian

schools even to the point of greatest sacrifice. The future of Pacific Lutheran college means the future of our Church on the Pacific slope.

Futhermore, we should have a strong Christian school where any

boy or girl from our congregations seeking a higher education may come and be trained efficiently without endangering their faith.

We are building our Churches not for toJay alone. We are building them for the young people who are growing up. Would it not be the height of folly and blindness to allow the finest young

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These are our boys and girls studying at Pacific Lutheran College. Many of them are· planning to become ministers of the Gospel. All of them

For the Sake of Our Youth, Our Church, Our

Our Saviour's Deep Concern

p ople to drift away from our congregations by gOing to higher

schools not of our faith or of no faith 'whatever? Martin Luther said: "For the right instruction of youth is a

matter in which Christ and all the world are concerned." To have

a living, growing Church tomorrow, we must assume the burden to­

day of giving a Christian training to the boys and girls in our COI1-

gregatlons. If we fail in that, our congregations tomorrow will be

weak and ineffective.

The splendid response a year ago for our great central colleges,

Lmher, St. Olaf, Concordia, and Augustana, wiH surely be an in­centive to our people on the Pacific slope to approach their greatest

hour with the faith that it can be done, 'with the conviction that it is worth doing.

THE Pacific Dislricl htls only one Lulh-erall Church School, Pacific LUlherat.

College 01 Pat'k!aII d, Wash. Shall we re­spolld 10 the call which III lhis time comes to 115 10 place all" College all a perrnallelll bl/sis for a IIseflll career by creillillg iln Endowmelll FIIlld for ils tnll;',lellallee?

Lei ItS remember Ihal Ihe Deuomi'IlI' lio,wi College is Ihe hellrl of Ihe Chl/rch. Frolll il IIIl1sl pltlstlle Ihe life·b1ood of Oltr Chrislian worke,'s ill Ihe Ch,ll'ch alltl Slale.

IVhell 0111' yOllllg people tire trailll'd 1101

Oldy illlelleeluall}, bl/I also spiritllally, by beillg placed IInde,' Ihe guiding iufillellce of Ihe stlcred WOI'lI of God dllring Ihe formalive period ill life, all awtlkelling wilhi" Ihe hClIrl may be looked for pe,·· Illillillg 10 Oltr Falher's HOl/se allil Busi· IIess.

We IIIay then hope to look fa" voltlll· leers ill the Mmy of Chrislillll workers.

Abolish Ihe Chllrch S hOI)I� and lie will evenlltolly be obli.�ed to tlbo"" all'

Clwrches. J. . E. NAES •.

To help us carry through our task, a number of men from the Middle West, tried in the 'work of our Church, are coming to give time and energy to

our undertaking. Their interest is surely a challenge to every one of us to show

(he deepest interest in our Christian schools.

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Our hour of opportunity is here. We are facing our critical task as a Christian people. If we are awake, if we have the sense of loyalty to sacrifice, there lies before our Church a future of promise. If we are indifferent to the "Church's Heart," her Christian school, our Church itself is due to fail and pass out. God grant in this critical hour to ev�ry pastor and congregation a spirit of consecration that in united strength we may face our task and carry it through to a glorious victory.

ire being trained to be loyal to their Saviour and their Church. Surely no sacrifice is too great to strengthen and maintain our Christian school.

We Will do Our Utmost for Our School

1!lr.1!}.�. �tubt a fatber of our qIburcbt laps our obHgation toltJarb �acific 1Lutbrran (lCollege on our conscience

THE NORWEGIAN LUTHERAN CHURCH OF AMERICA

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June and July are the months of opportunity for Pacific Lutheran College. In those months every

member of the Pacific District will be personally visited for a gift for the "heart of our Church"

on the Pacific slope, our Christian school. God stir our people to an understanding of this task, to

awaken to its supreme importance, to an unpftl"alleled eagerness of action and sacrifice.